In the latest trading session, 4.61 million Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd (NYSE:NCLH) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 2.26. With the company’s most recent per share price at $19.11 changed hands at -$0.93 or -4.64% at last look, the market valuation stands at $8.41B. NCLH’s current price is a discount, trading about -53.27% off its 52-week high of $29.29. The share price had its 52-week low at $14.69, which suggests the last value was 23.13% up since then. When we look at Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 18.96 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 11.33 million.

Analysts gave the Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd (NCLH) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 1.95. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 11 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 5 recommended NCLH as a Hold, 6 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be 0.09.

Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd (NYSE:NCLH) trade information

Instantly NCLH was in red as seen in intraday trades today. With action 1.81%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -25.73%, with the 5-day performance at 1.81% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd (NYSE:NCLH) is -27.56% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 24.76 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 2.21 days.

The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 30, meaning bulls need an upside of 36.3% from its recent market value. According to analyst projections, NCLH’s forecast low is 19 with 36 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -88.38% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 0.58% for it to hit the projected low.

Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd (NCLH) estimates and forecasts

Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach 7.42% up from the last financial year.

Consensus estimates given by 16 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of 2.15B. 16 analysts are of the opinion that Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd’s revenue for the current quarter will be 2.59B. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was 2.19B and 2.37B respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at -2.09%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at 9.19%.

Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of -16.28%. The 2025 estimates are for Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd earnings to increase by 14.96%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 19.91% per year.

Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd (NYSE:NCLH)’s Major holders

If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 0.79% of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd shares while 80.55% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 81.19%. There are 80.55% institutions holding the Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd stock share, with VANGUARD GROUP INC the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 12.1588% of the shares, roughly 51.89 million NCLH shares worth $975.09 million.

CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL INVESTORS holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 8.0007% or 34.79 million shares worth $653.66 million as of 2024-06-30.

Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Dec 31, 2024 were American Balanced Fund and Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund. With 18.33 shares estimated at $351.09 million under it, the former controlled 4.17% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund held about 3.15% of the shares, roughly 13.85 shares worth around $265.34 million.